Saeed Akbari-Zardkhaneh; Parvin Salehzadeh; Alimohammad Zanganeh; Nader Mansurkiaie; Mohammad Mostafavie; Mohsen Jallalat-Danesh; Einollah Teimorie; Siyamak Tahmasebi
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Due to the importance of identifying changes in students' mental health and the need for screening using accurate and valid tools appropriate to the ecological characteristics of Iranian society, the researchers decided to develop a short-scale electronic version of psychological health problems - teacher ...
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Due to the importance of identifying changes in students' mental health and the need for screening using accurate and valid tools appropriate to the ecological characteristics of Iranian society, the researchers decided to develop a short-scale electronic version of psychological health problems - teacher form for junior high school students. The statistical population of this study consists of junior high school students in 31 provinces of the country. In each province, two cities were selected by purposive sampling method and in each city, two schools were selected by simple random method and all junior high school students entered the sample group The sample consisted of 11,484 students (6,403 girls and 5,081 boys). Item analysis indicated appropriate psychometric properties for most items. The results of confirmatory factor analysis also showed that the eight-component model with forty items based on experts' views shows the best fit with the data. The standard path coefficients of the items were obtained between 0.34 and 0.87, which indicates the appropriate divergent validity and also the average variance extracted (between 0.46 and 0.73) of the items also indicates their convergent validity. The validity of the subscales was also optimally obtained based on the combined validity coefficient (between 0.83 and 0.93) and Cronbach's alpha (between 0.80 and 0.93). In other words, the short scale has the necessary internal coherence. The correlation between the components and with the total score was in the acceptable range. Comparing the factor structure of the girl and boy groups indicates a suitable and equivalent fit for both groups. Therefore, it can be concluded that psychometric properties indicate the appropriateness of the short form of the Mental Health Questionnaire for use in the screening process in the first grade high school students in Iran.
Mohammad Azad Abdollahpour
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T he main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the School/University Burnout Inventory (SBI, Salmela-Aro, Kiuru, Leskinen & Nurmi, 2009) among Iranian students. 322 university students (166 male, 156 female) completed the SBI and the Schoolwork Engagement Inventory ...
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T he main purpose of the present study was to investigate psychometric properties of the School/University Burnout Inventory (SBI, Salmela-Aro, Kiuru, Leskinen & Nurmi, 2009) among Iranian students. 322 university students (166 male, 156 female) completed the SBI and the Schoolwork Engagement Inventory (SEI, Salmela-Aro & Upadaya, 2012). The exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis methods and internal consistency were used to compute the SBI's factorial validity and reliability, respectively. Also, in order to examine the construct validity of the SBI, we computed correlations between total score of MSPSS and it's subscales with school engagement. The results of principal component analysis (PC) and varimax rotation replicated 3-factor structure of exhaustion at schoolwork, cynicism toward the meaning of school and sense of inadequacy at school in the Iranian sample. Goodness-of-fit indices of confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the 3 extracted factors. Internal consistency for the total score of SBI and its subscale consisted of exhaustion; cynicism and inadequacy were 0/91, 0/85, 0/84 and 0/89 respectively. In sum, these findings provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the SBI as a instrument to measure of school burnout among Iranian university students.
